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Judicial decisions should be based on "neutral principles of law which transcend the immediate result involved in the case at hand," Herbert Wechsler, professor of Law at Columbia University, declared last night. Discussing "Towards Neutral Principles of Constitutional Law," Wechsler delivered the annual Oliver Wendell Holmes Lecture last night in Austin Hall.
Although he characterized the Supreme Court integration ruling of 1954 as "among the most enduring contributions to our society in years," Wechsler called the "force of analysis" on which it was based inadequate.
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